Politics

Betting on Bengaluru

V Shoba

Betting on Bengaluru: Women and welfare play key roles in India’s IT capital

BJP’s Mission Kashmir

The Lok Sabha polls in the Union territory are just the means to achieve a favourable condition in the proposed Assembly election

The Swaraj Aura

Amita Shah

In New Delhi, BJP candidate Bansuri Swaraj taps into the legacy of her mother and the youth vote

A Socialist Mirage

Siddharth Singh

Policies that encourage redistribution have a poor track record and Congress’ leftward lurch is more a vision of class war than empowerment

Modi’s Doosra

Rajeev Deshpande

In what could be a pivotal moment in the election, PM links Congress’s redistribution stance to its pursuit of quotas for Muslims at the cost of OBCs

Spare the EVM Please

Rajeev Deshpande

Look who’s losing faith in democracy

“The day you say Modi is ‘satisfied’, you can say you are paying homage to him”

Open

PM Narendra Modi says he is impatient to complete unfinished work of national development and expresses confidence of voters backing his government’s record.

Battle of the Equals

MG Radhakrishnan

Shashi Tharoor seeks a fourth-term from Thiruvananthapuram while his formidable challenger Rajeev Chandrasekhar hopes for a sensational debut

The Saffron Dare

V Shoba

BJP makes an ambitious push in Tamil Nadu, challenging traditional calculations in a state used to bipolar contests between DMK and AIADMK, writes

The Frontline of Democracy

Siddharth Singh

On a visit to the home village of top Maoist commander Hidma in Bastar, Siddharth Singh finds ground domination and a humanitarian outreach are containing Maoist terror